Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Doing
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waking
cooking
eating
cleaning
sawing
shearing
swinging
laughing
coughing
hacking
whacking
lifting
hanging
singing
flinging
calling
chilling
dreaming
hearing
feeding
washing
seeing
wanting
doing
writing
fooling
asking
shooing
snoring
cooing
playing
chewing
drifting
zooming
brushing
knowing
itching
going
scratching
choosing
thinking
snoozing
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Reply
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don’t forget
it wasn’t always this way
you used to actually dial a phone
before that
there wasn’t such a thing
as a dial
you didn’t phone
back then
the masses didn’t know
such a device
would even come to be
expeditions would head out
for years at a time
imagine the waiting
done by loved ones way back home
compared to present day concerns
as you wonder why
on your fancy mobile toy
your text brought no reply
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Darkness
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darkness
it swoops in
laterally
blown from another place
or another time
ready
eager even
to swallow what light remains
but it is helpless
against sleep
through no fault of its own
as slumber
washes away
toxins
accumulated
in the brain
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Choose
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freedom
to choose health
in the face of other options
takes effort
that is rewarded
incrementally
sometimes infinitesimally
over time
do the math
not the science
that it takes
making rockets fly
simple addition
day after day
for months at a time
healthy emerges
for goodness sakes
like green on the grass
running in a river
rounding the rocks
headed toward forever
where life is esteemed
and success of good health
the spectacular garnish
that feeds on itself
in magical ways
running and jumping
with joyous persuasion
returning investments
of health options chosen
turn off that tv
go do something else
break down that routine
be someone else
that unlikely person
you never felt could
emerge from your shell
stuck there for good
just a choice
to be made
inside the mind
there’s reward to be nabbed
free for the choosing
life filled with promise
of better than good
outside the lines
of everyday drab
just beyond reach
of those who don’t try
it’s easy to grasp
for the bold few who do
exercise free choice
to choose better health
not just for a day
but from now on
days-months-years at a time
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